8 Responses to “Video Showing Onyx’s New eReaders for 2016”

Cool! I’ve just pre-ordered the Onyx Boox Max and can’t wait to work with it. Hopefully the 13.3 inch nische will prove a great success showing once again that the pioneers would teach conservative rigid dinosaurs like Amazon and Kobo a lesson.

It is awful that the big companies refused for so long to bring e-readers bigger than 6.8 inch on the market.

The reason that Amazon and Kobo don’t offer larger E Ink devices is because they make money from selling ebooks and large ereaders fill a different need. They can’t make much money selling PDFs and research papers and the like so there’s no reason for them to make large E Ink devices, especially Kobo since they aren’t a hardware company.

I was hoping that something like an 8-inch ereader would fill the gap for people who like reading ebooks with larger font sizes, older folks especially, but Amazon and Kobo don’t seem to care to go up to that size even. After watching one of the recent YouTube videos interviewing the people that design Kindles I doubt Amazon will ever release anything larger than 6-inches as long as they’re in charge because all they seem to care about is making Kindles thinner and lighter, smaller not larger.

For Amazon and Kobo E Ink ereaders have become all about reading ebooks and ebooks alone. They just don’t care hardly at all about any other forms of ereading on their E Ink devices. Even their PDF support is pretty pathetic.

Iphone owners used to love their 3.5″ screens, they swore they didnt need larger, that it wasnt necessary. Now they swear how they couldve lived without their iphone pluses. Same principle applies here, bigger is better. 6″ is even smaller than a mass paperback book. 6.8″ would make a big difference while still keeping a small footprint.

You’re right Nathan, Amazon and Kobo don’t have to produce e-reader for PDF documents, which lack commercial use. Nonetheless, there are a lot of non-fiction books for specialists and univerities, even in the offer of the named companies. These books need often larger screens in order to render information in a meaningful way.

Thus it would still make sense to build larger e-readers, and I bet Bezos & Co. could make good money from selling the e-readers and the specialized books. The only condition for a success would be not to start with outrageously high prices for the devices. And this is what Amazon is incapable of.